BUSINESS cloud software provider Infor has taken a giant leap forward for artificial intelligence (AI) at scale as it has made the general availability of its platform for embedded machine learning models.
The Infor Coleman AI Platform provides the speed, repeatability and personalization required for businesses to fully operationalize AI. Named after physicist and mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson for her work at Nasa that helped humans land on the moon, it is a key building block for the company’s Intelligent CloudSuite.
With the platform, enterprises can leverage on industry-specific starter packs (templates) to accelerate development of repeatable big data, machine learning-based AI projects. They are highly personalized and designed to specific customer data and usage patterns. Also, they are tailored for utilization by “citizen developers,” who don’t need extensive data modeling skills.
When consolidated with Infor Operating Service, enterprises can simplify and accelerate the whole implementation process—giving them the ability to roll out complete, production AI projects in less than six weeks. Infor OS is a cloud operating service that combines business processes with AI and offer operational insights that were never accessible to a business before.
Infor, via its AI Platform and OS, delivers the Intelligent CloudSuite, a complete suite to automate, anticipate, predict and inform. This gives businesses the required insights when they need them.
“With other solutions, you have to figure out how to use AI with a multitude of other technologies. We bring an enterprise AI ensemble together in a single platform, through which we can provide a complete Intelligent CloudSuite,” said Rick Rider, Infor senior director of product management, Infor OS and the Coleman AI Platform.
“The Infor Coleman AI Platform is unique in that it is designed specifically for business users and built upon a foundation of industry-specific data. At any given moment, it can help with executing tasks and recommending next-best sales offers, or predicting maintenance issues and adjusting production schedules accordingly,” he added.
Being a pervasive machine learning channel that operates below an application’s surface, this platform mines data and uses powerful machine learning to help enhance processes, such as inventory management, transportation routing and predictive maintenance. Specifically designed for nontechnical business users, it is built upon a foundation of industry-specific data and also provides the extensive tooling needed for a well-established machine learning practice.
The platform modeling environment is “digestible,” in that it doesn’t require as complex a skillset as other AI tooling; nor is it designed to require an exhaustive service engagement. Customers can better understand, relate and trust the output, given the focus on user experience and embedded connectivity to the whole applicable enterprise suite. Organizations can work to gain a competitive edge by creating models from their proprietary data and experiences, and the platform allows them to pass along advantages, up and down stream, using their AI insights.
Infor offers different applications that span across financials, manufacturing, supply chain, human resources, customer relationships, health care, retail and the public sector. The firm serves over 68,000 customers in more than 170 countries through its 17,300 employees worldwide. In the Philippines alone, it has over 300 customers.